Adult contemporary, where did it come from?

[koganbot]

Here's the theme-song to a Japanese videogame* that's sung in English by a Chinese woman (Faye Wong) who was born in Beijing but originally rose to fame singing in Cantonese rather than Mandarin. But the reason I post it (Faye Wong sings it well, but she's done more interesting stuff) is that when I heard it I thought to myself, "I bet she's covering a song by a country diva" thinking that this was the sort of song a country diva aiming to hit the adult contemporary market might have sung about thirty years ago. So my question would be, who else who isn't country would be likely to sing something like this? (One answer: Faye Wong, though I gather that this sort of thing was less and less a part of her repertoire as she went on. She's still a subject for further research, my having seen her name for the first time four days ago.)

"Final Fantasy VIII - Eyes On Me" (Watch on YouTube)

*Final Fantasy VIII, which I gather isn't just a game, but a whole franchise, a combination videogame and Taco Bell.

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[petronia.livejournal.com]

Of course the point of these is that they operate according to the "Titanic" principle, i.e. they're imbued with meaning by the 80-hour epic narrative they accompany (usually by way of romantic leitmotif) so that when you get to hear the all-stops-pulled symphonic vocal version you're meant to bawl.